The Week of January 22, 2017 by CoenM

One of Donald Trump's first executive orders was to reinstate the global gag rule that bars US funds going to any international organization that mentions or performs abortions, a rule also named for what WORLD CAPITAL?

The Dow Jones Industrial Average hit what MILESTONE, thanks to a continued rally stoked by the expected corporate-friendly policies of the Trump administration?

A gag order placed on several government agencies led to the Twitter account of what NATIONAL PARK tweeting out several climate-related facts, which were later deleted but not before inspiring the creation of several alternate Twitter accounts?

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved its Doomsday Clock by 30 seconds, leaving it HOW MANY MINUTES AWAY FROM MIDNIGHT?

What PRESIDENT OF MEXICO cancelled a planned visit to the US as part of the ongoing dispute of just who will pay for a wall along the US-Mexico border?

Using a diamond anvil and pressures found at the core of planets, scientists at Harvard announced that they had created a metallic form of what ELEMENT, which in larger quantities could be used as a room-temperature superconductor or a rocket fuel?

Carolyn Bryant Donham broke six decades of silence and admitted she lied about the encounter that led to the lynching of what 14 YEAR OLD AFRICAN-AMERICAN in 1955?

A scandal involving the provision of condoms saw Pope Francis get involved with the senior leadership of what SOVEREIGN CHIVALRIC ORDER, leading to the resignation of its Grand Master, Matthew Festing?

In a major shake-up, Trump removed the Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the director of national intelligence from the principals committee of what BODY, and named Steve Bannon to it in their place?

What FORMER ITALIAN PRIME MINISTER had charges of witness tampering levied against him, alleging that he paid witnesses to testify in his favor in a case where was convicted of having sex with an underage prostitute (though he was cleared on appeal)?

What COUNTRY said they would not extradite 8 Turkish military members involved in the failed coup against President Erdogan, voicing concerns that they would not have their rights protected if returned?

Ant Financial, the digital payment arm of what CHINESE INTERNET COMPANY, announced that they were buying MoneyGram for $880 million?